funny little piece from my day...
This just cracked me up so I had to post it. It's good commentary on my current situation.
From:Elliott, Matt A.
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:26 PM
To: James, Sean; Johns, Chris R; Austin, David; jeanbgrenouille@[censored]
Subject: we're addicted...
From slashdot...
Only 15% of Gamers are Internet Addicts
By samzenpus on I-know-I-could-remember-if-i-could-just-play-a-game
Huckster writes "Jeffrey Parsons - a doctoral candidate from University of Iowa has resently conducted a research on MMORPG addiction. It took a while to get the results - but they are now available. The study found that about 15% of gamers meet the criteria for Internet addiction as provided by Kimberly Young, a leading researcher in Internet addiction. Using more strict criteria, a minimum of at least 10% of gamers met criteria for Internet addiction. Compared to national studies of Internet addiction, this numbers are somewhat elevated. However, given the sheer number of hours MMORPG gamers spend online (in comparison to the general population), even a 15% addiction rate is somewhat low. To illustrate the point, the college student spends 10 hours on the Internet per week. The average MMORPG gamer (addicted or not) spends 20-25 hours per week just playing MMORPGs, and an additional 10-15 hours per week in other Internet use. In other words, MMORPG players are spending 4x as much time online as non-gamers."
-Matt
From:James, Sean
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:33 PM
To: Elliott, Matt A.
Subject: RE: we're addicted...
Who the HELL is Kimberly Young anyway? And how is she to tell me I spend to much time playing games. F her. Plus..."Leading Researcher in Internet Addiction".. what the hell is that. I say 100% of "internet addiction researchers" are assholes.
Fun is fun.
:)
From:Elliott, Matt A.
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:26 PM
To: James, Sean; Johns, Chris R; Austin, David; jeanbgrenouille@[censored]
Subject: we're addicted...
From slashdot...
Only 15% of Gamers are Internet Addicts
By samzenpus on I-know-I-could-remember-if-i-could-just-play-a-game
Huckster writes "Jeffrey Parsons - a doctoral candidate from University of Iowa has resently conducted a research on MMORPG addiction. It took a while to get the results - but they are now available. The study found that about 15% of gamers meet the criteria for Internet addiction as provided by Kimberly Young, a leading researcher in Internet addiction. Using more strict criteria, a minimum of at least 10% of gamers met criteria for Internet addiction. Compared to national studies of Internet addiction, this numbers are somewhat elevated. However, given the sheer number of hours MMORPG gamers spend online (in comparison to the general population), even a 15% addiction rate is somewhat low. To illustrate the point, the college student spends 10 hours on the Internet per week. The average MMORPG gamer (addicted or not) spends 20-25 hours per week just playing MMORPGs, and an additional 10-15 hours per week in other Internet use. In other words, MMORPG players are spending 4x as much time online as non-gamers."
-Matt
From:James, Sean
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:33 PM
To: Elliott, Matt A.
Subject: RE: we're addicted...
Who the HELL is Kimberly Young anyway? And how is she to tell me I spend to much time playing games. F her. Plus..."Leading Researcher in Internet Addiction".. what the hell is that. I say 100% of "internet addiction researchers" are assholes.
Fun is fun.
:)
posted by matt at 3:42 PM
1 Comments:
Damn Sean is getting a littled miffed about his WOW addiction. Maybe we should have an intervention.
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